'Poverty' in the Bible
And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.
The wealth of the rich is his strong city, The ruin of the poor is their poverty.
Whoso is refusing instruction -- poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.
And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!
Whoso is tilling his ground is satisfied with bread, And whoso is pursuing vanity, Is filled with poverty.
Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,
He drinketh, and forgetteth his poverty, And his misery he remembereth not again.
He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.
because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;
for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.
I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty -- yet thou art rich -- and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of the Adversary.